Yet another steal from the Book of Tiki? - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Aug 27, 2004 4:46 AM Mahalo, Woody, for yet another find! You would think people would ask, but no... It never has been a question of "rights" for me, Spike. As I said many times, I just enjoy FINDING examples of image-use from my book, and seeing how it contributes to the spread of the Tiki image in pop culture. I have not made any commercial use (well, maybe with my name dropping on e-bay) of the Tiki revival YET (but I have plans), while many others have. Every now and then I get a little material kick back, like when Woody found the use of a Tiki photo of mine on the FU MANCHU cd and I wrote them and got a CD and a T-shirt. Off course I claim no rights to the Tiki ephemera and postcards, like the San Diego Mr. Tiki using the Tropics match book Tiki as a logo. But of the ca 600 illustrations in the BOT, about 200 are my photos, and since the Pitcairn sign is no more, it is likely that they used my photo of it from the BOT, which would have a copyright. But as I said, I hate all the copyright "censorship" in pop culture today, keeping pop imagery from re-entering pop culture. Only if big corporations would use BOT stuff to ad to their riches would I do something (like when Kellogg's used a Coop font, he got a nice chunk from them after he said something). The more Tiki imagery out there the merrier! [ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2004-08-27 10:17 ]

Mahalo, Woody, for yet another find! You would think people would ask, but no...

It never has been a question of "rights" for me, Spike. As I said many times, I just enjoy FINDING examples of image-use from my book, and seeing how it contributes to the spread of the Tiki image in pop culture. I have not made any commercial use (well, maybe with my name dropping on e-bay) of the Tiki revival YET (but I have plans), while many others have. Every now and then I get a little material kick back, like when Woody found the use of a Tiki photo of mine on the FU MANCHU cd and I wrote them and got a CD and a T-shirt. Off course I claim no rights to the Tiki ephemera and postcards, like the San Diego Mr. Tiki using the Tropics match book Tiki as a logo.

But of the ca 600 illustrations in the BOT, about 200 are my photos, and since the Pitcairn sign is no more, it is likely that they used my photo of it from the BOT, which would have a copyright.

But as I said, I hate all the copyright "censorship" in pop culture today, keeping pop imagery from re-entering pop culture. Only if big corporations would use BOT stuff to ad to their riches would I do something (like when Kellogg's used a Coop font, he got a nice chunk from them after he said something).

The more Tiki imagery out there the merrier!

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2004-08-27 10:17 ]

Post #110608 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Aug 27, 2004 4:46 AM